Re: Force english locale on Win32

[klaus triendl <klaus triendl eu>]

Саша Иваненко schrieb:
> Hi All.
>
> I use gtkmm for my GUI app on Win32 XP platform. Native locale for my system is russian. Problem is I cant force gtkmm to speak english! I have searched various forums, but nothing helps. I tried to sel locale at program startup using these functions:
>
> putenv("LANG=en_US.UTF8");
> putenv("LANGUAGE=en_US"); 
> putenv("LC_ALL=en_US");
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
>
> But gtkmm still print russian text on the standard dialog buttons etcetera.
> Please help to force english locale to gtkmm. 

Just an idea, not tested though: try setting the c++ locale.
std::locale::global(std::locale("C"));

The c++ locale works independently from the c-runtime locale for 
iostreams, I don't know whether it affects gtkmm.


Klaus